Monday, February 21, 2011

My hand is still wrapped, making it difficult to write my thank you notes.(and difficult to type)

A small set-back.

Have you ever written with the opposite hand? I have been writing left-handed now for over a week, and I'm getting sort of good at it. I've also been eating left-handed, which has staved off my normal gorging! And a doctor friend of mine told me that using your left hand on occasion can stave off dementia as well.

I don't know about you, but I could use that kind of insurance.

It's true that I love The Princess Bride. I am fairly certain that there is a quote in the movie that can be used in pretty much any situation in life. It is also true that I have used every opportunity possible recently to interject that "I am not left-handed." If it wasn't so difficult to type, I'd turn this whole post into a scene from the movie...but alas...

I looked online just now for an image from the movie and discovered this t-shirt which depicts one of the greatest fight-scenes in movie history. (...in my humble, if not misguided, opinion.)

(My apologies to anyone reading this who is anti-PB!)

I am still trying to figure out what I am supposed to be learning from my thumb injury. Perhaps it is that I need to develop skills that I have allowed to go dormant in order to strengthen myself as a whole? You know, work to make strengths out of my weaknesses. Maybe the lesson is to slow down and be careful about what I am doing. Or perhaps I am just supposed to beware of R.O.U.Ses? I don't know.

In other news, I hope you are keeping up with your letter-writing and reading.(Try to read though Mosiah 26 today.)

If you are, then give yourself an entry for today's giveaway by commenting on this post.

I thought that these upcycled atlas envelopes by Bugaboo Giftswere the bomb, and just had to have them for a giveaway here in Service Boot Camp this month.

Kelly of Bugaboo Gifts makes a lot of cool paper products, like these upcycled rigid mailers for instance:

We just watched Princess Bride this weekend with our kids. Always a favorite. We've been quoting it ever since. (My husband posted our movie watching on face book and got a slew of comments with everyones favorite quotes.)"No more rhyming, and I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?"

Writing with the left hand must be fun![if you are not left=handed]. Let me try that! And it got me more interested when you mentioned that it will somehow prevent Dementia...well my dear my "forgetfullness" is getting into me lately[seriously]...i have to write down everything AT ONCE because it slips off my brain quickly.

I mailed several letters this weekend to my 90 year old aunt and my much younger dg-in-law. And I'm lefthanded...once I fell and sprained my right thumb which we slowed me down some...lol~ get well soon.

It's not my favorite quote but my favorite story. While attend school, we (girls night out) watched PB. When the R.O.U.S.es come out and attack Wesley, Wesley holds one of them back with his hands on the R.O.U.S.es mouth open and the rodent's tongue waves wildly. A girl in the room said, "That's just like a return missionary who is just looking for action." It brought stunned silence to the room and then a giggle here and there building up to laughter. At that time in my life, I thought that kissing was pretty gross so that is what stuck in my mind about return missionaries and added to my complete avoidance of them.

I have a few favorite quotes:- It'll take a miracle.- There is such a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. - He's part of the brute squad.